World class for 12 minutes, 2nd (or 3rd/4th/5th etc - take your pick) class for the last 68 minutes. As has been mentioned, it's a good job Swintons kicker left his boots at home or it could have been far worse. On the plus side, at least it didn't rain!!
One question though. Do we need to get some brown 'football pitch markings cover upperer'? Swinton were hard done by when they had to drop out due to the linesmans mistake - it could be our turn next

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We have to trust Richard to get to the bottom of why when we were defending it was like the Monty Python School Masters V Pupils match. I don't remember seeing one defensive channel so obliterated since Chariots Vs Cordle.

I have no idea who sets the defensive patterns, whether we trust in the sliding defence and whether the lads organise as and when they see what's in front, but something went horribly wrong down one channel yesterday.

For me, it raised a few other things I'm sure the players and coaching staff will answer positively, very soon, on the field. Selection? Did we have our strongest side out? Did we underestimate the opposition? Did we go to sleep after 20 minutes? Do a couple of the players need to find their mojo ? (RL finds you out if your not up for the battle)

Swinton wanted it more, and if they had a goal kicker of even average ability, the game probably wouldn't have been as close as the final score suggested.

Does anyone know how Gareth Potts is doing, he was really showing form before his injury last season.

Anyway, Richard will sort it, I truly believe it, but yesterday was dreadful, you can't go through the motions in RL. The squad will hopefully have learned a very valuable lesson, and as torrid a time as Will had, none of them were sparkling.

P.s Well done to Swinton, my word they gave it everything, their fans should be proud, they play some good stuff too.

Got to agree and that is why Will is proving such a big disappointment as I have felt since we lost Rob Worrincy that we have not had a length of the field type player with speed and thought Will would be it, sadly not and I am baffled why?
We still need a paceman out wide who can also defend!
Going back to yesterday whilst we are all saying Swinton deserved their win and they did they were only in the game on the back of our errors come on we were 16-0 up and we knocked on (Ben Kaye yet again an unenforced error at dummy half) giving them some belief, we did it three times and all cost us a try plus a couple of stupid forward passes in our own half which we have done far too many times.
What shocked me was how they shifted the ball out wide and score 5 tries yet we try and they tackled our man whilst going to the line causing him to knock on, we rarely get an overlap and I am puzzled why when Swinton showed how it is done, especially that last try it was so easy !

Hey, have I missed something. What's the story with Salty??

Re Will Sharp, we're just disappointed that he's not ripping teams apart like he did to us when he was playing for Fev. Then, he was a straightforward winger, and that's maybe what we should be using him as now?